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Java Films
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2014.
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Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a documentary on the War on Terror’s impact on civil liberties. For the past 15 years, the phrase ‘War on Terror’ has been used to justify everything from mass surveillance and spying to the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without evidence or trial. Throughout history, governments have applied security surveillance programmes to people they considered a political threat. But surveillance...
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"Luis "Lue" Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and special agent who was recruited into a strange and highly sensitive US Government program to investigate UAP incursions into sensitive military installations and air space. To accomplish his mission, Elizondo had to rely on decades of experience gained working some of America's most sensitive and classified programs. Even then, he was not prepared for what he would learn, and the truth...
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Art-school dropout Chandra would do anything to apologize for her role in her wife's coma-including enroll in the first round of human trials for an internet-access brain implant. At first, the secretive research compound is paradise, but a dark wave of uncertainty soon crashes down on the study, pitting Chandra against ruthless tech magnate Wyatt, a man whose own secrets compel him to press on with his work at all costs. Beyond the complex's walls,...
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Imminent Peril is a novel of the Civil War that tells the story of the young men of the famous Wolverine Brigade, of Michigan's 5th cavalry. The story is told in the form of a memoir written by a fictitious common soldier caught up in that disastrous conflict. His comrades who fought the battles and the identities of their famous leaders are rendered as accurately as the author could make them. All of the enlisted men who appear in these pages were...
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HER REAL NAME WAS ALLISON WELCH...;
But he knew her as Cecilia Webster. Just weeks ago, she'd had everything. Then came the tragedy that stole it all-;along with her eyesight. The blindness was only temporary. So were her new name and her stay in rural Montana. But what about her feelings for the gruff, tender lawman who'd taken her in?
Tormented by his own past, Sheriff Jesse Wilder had a beautiful, vulnerable witness in his protective custody-;and...
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A family of spies. A network of killers. A treacherous, planned attack on the world's most powerful leaders-and the final countdown to Armageddon . . .
Jacobslav Scarvan is supposed to be dead. Once a ruthless assassin for the KGB, he went too far when he burned a family alive for the sheer pleasure of it-and became a target himself. Both the CIA and Russian intelligence wanted him eliminated. CIA agent Scott Roberts was the man to do it. Three...
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Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival-our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing dramatic transformation.
We trace the veins of harm, memory and meaning amongst ecosystems and bioregions;...
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Her reputation is on the line. A woman's life is in danger. Can she stop them both from flatlining?
Lawyer Cass Leary is desperate for a break from her family drama. And when a local judge asks for help protecting his sister from domestic abuse, she sees an opportunity to resurrect her career. But the case quickly turns ugly when her client vanishes without a trace.
Convinced the volatile husband is behind the disappearance, Cass doubles down on...
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When one bad decision changes the course of her life, Jenna must seek protection from a surprising source.
The Protection Inc. team is growing, and so is their client list. Former cop and new team member, Peter King, seeks to solve the mystery surrounding threatening notes being sent to Jenna Walsh.
Facing an uncertain future, Jenna is afraid for her life. Will the team at Protection Inc., specifically Peter, be able to stop the threats before things...
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“Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene” invites readers to join a contemplation of survival-our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing dramatic transformation.
We trace the veins of harm, memory and meaning amongst ecosystems and bioregions;...
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Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities presents questions and answers concerning the current state and near future of cities of the world through the lens of public initiatives, projects, and urban narratives. Cities are searching for new possibilities that will help them survive and thrive within new systems of municipal governance. The strategies of cities with regard to rapid urbanization, scarcity of public resources, and privatization of commons...
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In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks, ecological cycles of resources, which supersede the traditional boundaries of...
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The cities of the world stand at a crossroads. Amidst radical social, economic, and technological transformations, will the city become a driving force of creativity, diversity, and sustainability, or will it be a mechanism of inequality, despair, and environmental decay? At this critical moment, where do the stakes lie and what are the agents of change? From the time of its birth, the city has been held together by the commons.
The book includes...
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The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is a familiar and well-loved theme to Latter Day Saints and Christians generally. The associated signs of the times have been debated and discussed many times. However, this book approaches the subject from unusual angles and describes signs of the times that have not previously been presented in such a book. The evidence from such signs is compelling the upheavals of nature which will precede the second...
19) Imminently Dead
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Geordie and Lazarus are back, and they have a big problem. Someone's sending death threats to Geordie, and he's afraid that he'll soon be relegated to an afterlife of wandering the earth, giving fashion advice to the passé living. Can Trent and Linda save him from his fate?Warning: Contains strong language, Australian spelling, and hysteria. Not recommended for children.Geordie says:Isn't it amazing how unimportant impending death is when it's only...
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Extrait: "En attirant votre attention sur l'imminence de changements physiques, je tiens à vous montrer que des transformations identiques se sont produites dans le passé avant ces transformations d'un autre ordre qui s'appliquent à la naissance d'une Religion Mondiale, à l'avènement d'un Instructeur du monde..."
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